QUOTE OF THE DAY

"Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs
to the English or France to the French...What is going on in Palestine
today cannot be justified by any moral code of conduct...If they [the Jews]
must look to the Palestine of geography as their national home, it is wrong
to enter it under the shadow of the British gun. A religious act cannot be
performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb. They can settle in
Palestine only by the goodwill of the Arabs... As it is, they are
co-sharers with the British in despoiling a people who have done no
wrong to them. I am not defending the Arab excesses. I wish they had chosen
the way of non-violence in resisting what they rightly regard as an
unacceptable encroachment upon their country. But according to the
accepted canons of right and wrong, nothing can be said against the Arab
resistance in the face of overwhelming odds."

Mahatma Gandhi, quoted in "A Land of Two Peoples" ed. Mendes-Flohr.